Intellectual Virtue: Perspectives from Ethics and Epistemology

Virtue ethics has attracted a lot of attention over the past few decades, and more recently there has been considerable interest in virtue epistemology as an alternative to traditional approaches in that field. Ironically, although virtue epistemology got its inspiration from virtue ethics, this is the first book that brings virtue epistemologists and virtue ethicists together to contribute their particular expertise, and the first that is devoted to the topic of intellectual virtue. All new and right up to date, the papers collected here by Zagzebski and DePaul demonstrate the benefit of each branch of philosophy to the other. Intellectual Virtue will be required reading for anyone working in either field. Read more Continue reading Read less REVIEW
"one indication of the importance and timeliness of this anthology is that it makes room for fundamental critiques of mainstream epistemology."--Ethics
--This text refers to the paperback edition. ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Michael DePaul is in the Department of Philosophy, University of Notre Dame, Indiana. Linda Zagzebski is in the Department of Philosophy, University of Oklahoma. --This text refers to the paperback edition. Read more Continue reading Read less